5 CRPS Awareness T-Shirts You’ll Love | Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Tees – Most of us know the key to understanding is awareness. These next few t-shirts are a great way to spread the word about Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) while showing support to those who are affected. CRPS affects so many people and it can be diagnosed in any age, any gender, any race!

Most t-shirts are available in many sizes and colors and some even have youth sizes available.

This first shirt is for the CRPS Warrior, it’s made form soft material and can be shipped right from Amazon. If you have Amazon Prime you can get it in 2 days! Grab yours today : HERE

This next 2-sided shirt is also great for awareness and one of our best sellers! It comes in a few different colors and sizes, creates awesome awareness and lists the symptoms of CRPS on the back of the shirt! You can grab your T-shirt HERE or the long sleeve HERE

3. The next shirt is a newer design and already off to a great start! “Strength of a Warrior” grab yours HERE

4. This next shirt “Strong is Beautiful” comes in a hoodie HERE or the T-shirt HERE

5. This next shirt is perfect for RSD/ CRPS Awareness month, which is in November. Grab one for you and your friends HERE.

Thank you for looking! If you ever have a design you want printed for your group e-mail us and we would love to work with you on it!

Benefits Of Meditation To Reduce Anxiety

Benefits Of Meditation To Reduce Anxiety – Meditation is a great tool to help you calm down and get back to thinking clearly when you’re feeling particularly anxious. It can instantly calm down the overexcited nervous system and have you feeling more centered and ready to face whatever live throws at you. As helpful as it is in reducing anxiety on demand, it’s even more powerful when it comes to prevention.

There are two components of anxiety that relate to the brain. The first is those random thoughts and worries that keep running through your head, and making you feel anxious. The second part is that as a person that worries and gets anxious a lot, you are using the amygdala, the part of your brain that’s associated with regulating emotions a lot. This particular area of the brain lights up more on scans with people struggling with anxiety. Since you are essentially rewiring your brain to increase activity in this area, you may think yourself into worse and worse anxiety. Thankfully meditation can help with both.

First I want you to realize that this isn’t the only aspect of anxiety. While meditation will greatly benefit you, it may not be a cure all. That being said, meditation is simple to do and something that can be done by anyone. I encourage you to give it a try. If you find yourself struggling, it may be helpful to find a meditation teacher who can guide you through your first few sessions. This will help you calm your mind enough so you can continue to practice this ancient technique on your own going forward.

For many of us, listening to a good guided meditation, and simply practicing it daily is enough to see results. Start by reading up on the benefits of meditation and how to do it. There are many different ways to start meditating. The easiest one to get started with is a short guided meditation. You can find online recordings, cds, and even smart phone apps like a play list, that will get you started.

Sit or lay comfortably, listen to the recording and follow the instructions. Don’t worry if your thoughts start to drift. Gently bring yourself back to the meditation. It’s surprisingly hard to focus on nothing but the meditation. Start with short sessions of 10 minutes or less. Once you get comfortable, you can extend your meditations as needed. The key to getting better at meditating and reaping the benefits of calming down those random thoughts and worries, as well as rewiring your brain to be less anxious in general, is daily practice. Get started, and then make it part of your daily routine.

Have you found meditation helpful for your anxiety?
Please comment below and tell us about it.

Being Anxious vs. Anxiety Attacks

Being Anxious vs. Anxiety Attacks – Today I want to talk a little bit about the difference between being anxious a having a full-blown, debilitating anxiety attack. I mentioned in previous posts that we all have times when we’re a bit anxious. It’s a natural reaction to a perceived future thread. Sometimes it’s simple the fear of the unknown. Sometimes we’re afraid that we’ll embarrass ourselves or that we disappoint out loved ones. It’s often not a problem. It’s uncomfortable, but it can also be a good way to motivate you to work harder, study more and the likes. Simple little occasional feelings of anxiety are not a problem and not what we try to reduce in during this challenge.

On the other end of the spectrum are big anxiety attacks. For a few unfortunate individuals, anxiety spirals so badly out of control and their bodies release so many stress hormones that they have to deal with anything from total isolation to frequent panic attack. It is also often accompanied by severe physical symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, migraines etc. Treating these types of severe anxiety attacks is also outside of the scope of this challenge. If you suspect you’re suffering from this, please seek professional help immediately.

What we can address is the stuff in the middle. If you are worried and anxious frequently and it’s starting to have an impact on your quality of life and your health, without being a serious medical problem. If your anxiety if impacting your sleep, your ability to relax, to enjoy life with your loved ones, I hope I can give you some tips and ideas to help you reduce it. Give this challenge a try, but if at any time you feel yourself spiraling out of control and towards severe anxiety attacks, don’t hesitate to get help.

What I can show you is how to relax, how to put your thoughts into perspective, how to calm your nervous system down, and how to change your attitude from constant worry and fear to looking forward to what the future brings.

Think about how you stumbled across this post though a Google search, or what made you seek out more information about the difference between anxiety and anxiety attacks. Reflect on how often you’re feeling anxious on a given day, in a given week, or even a month. Between the spectrum of feeling a little anxious every now and then, and debilitate chronic anxiety, where do you think you’re at? Figure that out and then decide if this challenge over the next few weeks could be helpful, or if you need more help. If you’re on the fence, give it a chance and see how it goes. You may not feel like you need to change at all, but I promise you that in this day and age we can all benefit from a little less stress & anxiety and more relaxation.

How To Recognize Anxiety Quickly

How To Recognize Anxiety Quickly – If you’re just joining us we have started discussing anxiety over the last few weeks, you can find last weeks post here. One of the best ways to deal with anxiety is to recognize it quickly. The problem with this state of mind is that it quickly spirals out of control. The sooner you recognize that you’re getting more than a little anxious, the better you’ll be able to combat the effects it has with various techniques that help you calm back down.

Whether you use breathing techniques, meditations, positive thinking, or any of the other tips and techniques you come across during this challenge and elsewhere, the key to being less anxious is to notice it as soon as it starts. It’s much easier to calm down when you’re feeling a little stressed and worried than when you’re in the middle of a full-blown anxiety attack.

Your approach to noticing when you’re getting anxious without a valid reason – remember, sometimes anxiety is helpful and necessary – should be two-fold. You want to pay attention to both your mind and your body. Each will give you clues long before you start to feel out of control. Staying in control and forcing yourself to calm back down is the entire point of this exercise. The earlier you can disrupt the feeling of anxiety, the easier it is to break through and stop yourself from spiraling out of control.

You’ll experience both physical and mental symptoms long before you get too nervous and anxious to do anything about it. Before I share with you what to look for, I want you to be aware that it varies from person to person and event to event what you’ll experience. Sometimes you’ll notice most of these, while you only get a few symptoms here and there at other times. Don’t wait until you show every single symptom before starting to work on alleviating your anxiety.

They physical symptoms are comprised of what we talked about in last weeks post. They include trouble sleeping, insomnia, upset stomach, nausea, diarrhea, sweating, increased heart rate, headache, fatigue, and weakness.

The mental signs that you’re starting to get anxious are a feeling of dread of fear, having a hard time concentrating or having a blank mind, feeling high strung and on the alert for danger, being tense and unsalable to sit still, and being irritable. Again, you won’t feel all of these mental and emotional times every time, but they are good signs to look out for.

Pay attention to your body and mind. Recognize the signs of anxiety early and then make an effort to relax and rationalize your fears. Break the vicious cycle and avoid spiraling down into a pit of anxiety.

The Physical Side of Anxiety – Signs To Watch

The Physical Side Of Anxiety | Signs To Watch – Last week we looked into Anxiety can be debilitating, you can read that here. While the cause of anxiety is mainly mental, it manifests in physical form through the changes that our bodies undergo when we start to feel anxious. The bigger our anxiety gets, the more pronoun the physical changes will be. Often it is those physical impacts that have the biggest negative impact on our health and our quality of life. Making an attempt to reduce both the frequency and severity of anxiety experiences will have an immediate positive effect on the body.

It’s important that you recognize these physical manifestations of anxiety. Think of them as warning signals. When you start to notice them, it’s time to get proactive about dialing your anxiety down. Let’s take a look at what you might experience on the physical side of anxiety.

Trouble Sleeping

Often you first sign of anxiety is that you’re having trouble sleeping. It may be harder to fall asleep with random thoughts running through your head. Or you may wake up in the middle of the night with worries.

Excessive Sweating

Sweating and sweaty hands in particular are another sign that you’re getting anxious and stressed out. Listen to your body and work on calming down. Running your hands under slightly cool water can give you immediate relieve, but won’t help reduce your anxiety.

Pounding Heartbeat and Headache

As your anxiety and your stress level go up, you may start to notice a pounding heartbeat. Your body is pumping blood through your system in an effort to get ready for a fight or flight. With the increased adrenalin and higher blood pressure, you may also start to get a headache.

Nausea or Upset Stomach

Nausea and an upset stomach can be another physical symptom of anxiety. I’m sure you’ve experienced this at times when you were nervous about an exam or public speaking engagement. You know your anxiety is spiraling up when you start to feel extremely nauseous.

Fatigue and Weakness

Listen to your body. Being on high alert for long periods of time, as during an anxiety attach, is exhausting. Get extra rest when you can and don’t push yourself too hard.

Insomnia

As the level of anxiety rises, you’ll see some of these physical symptoms increase. You can quickly move from having trouble sleeping to full-blown insomnia. If it lasts for more than a couple of nights, and your attempts to relax and reduce your level of anxiety, it may be time to get professional help so you can rest.